The layoffs will come by the end of 2012, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported Monday.
Sony's new CEO Kazuo Hirai will hold a briefing on Thursday.
Sony has posted four straight years of losses, hurt by weakness at its LCD television unit.
Talks are continuing between AT&T (T) and about 40,000 AT&T landline workers, the Communications Workers of America said Sunday.
The union contracts expired over the weekend. A strike was a possibility, but both sides said they would keep working on a new deal.
A CWA spokeswoman said the employees would report for work without a new contract, but still retain the option to call for a walkout.
At issue in the negotiations are job protection clauses and health care premiums and co-payments, according to The Associated Press.
Yahoo!'s (YHOO) head of products, Blake Irving, is leaving the company following an announcement the Internet company would be slashing 2,000 jobs.
Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson will hold an all-staff meeting Tuesday to brief employees on the company's new management structure, a source told Reuters.
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Great Wolf Resorts (WOLF) received a sweetened takeover bid of $7 a share in cash from KSL Capital Partners.
Great Wolf, an operator of indoor water parks, rejected an earlier bid of $6.25 a share from KSL, the private investment firm.
The latest bid from KSL tops an agreed-to bid from Apollo Global Management (APO) of $6.75 a share.
Great Wolf said Sunday it would evaluate the bid of $7 a share from KSL.
Earnings are expected Monday from Greenbrier (GBX), a supplier of transportation equipment and services to the railroad industry, and Zep (ZEP), a maker of cleaning products.
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